Welcome to the official website of Wapello County, Iowa. This website is designed to help current and future residents of Wapello County find all necessary information about our county! Wapello County includes the following cities and towns: Agency, Blakesburg, Chillicothe, Eddyville, Eldon, Kirkville and Ottumwa.

NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS

The Wapello County Recorder’s office now accepts passport applications on behalf of US Department of State Passport Services. The official website for all passport information including downloadable application forms, current requirements and fees, travel warnings and consular information sheets (on every country in the world) is available at travel.state.gov. Passport applications

Wapello County Public Health and Wapello County Emergency Management recently teamed up to provide Emergency Preparedness kits to two local school systems. Evans Middle School and Eddyville/Blakesburg/Fremont schools both received the preparedness kits. Funding for this project was provided by the Wapello County Healthcare Coalition which covered 90% of the project and

Renewals for the 2015 tags for off-road vehicles including ATVs, ORM, ORVs and snowmobiles will begin Sept. 1. Transactions that will include a partial year assessment of $5.00 will include: new registrations processed Sept. 1 through Dec. 31; delinquent transactions renewed after Sept. 1 through Dec. 31; a transfer (current or delinquent) processed

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About Wapello County

Wapello County was created on February 17, 1843 from Unorganized Territory. The county opened at midnight on April 30, 1843 with several hundred eager settlers camped along the eastern border. At the sound of a shotgun, they

raced towards the “New Purchase” to make their claim. Many conflicts arose over the hastily made boundary lines, which were usually settled peaceably by the claim committees. Within a month 5,000 people lived in Wapello County.